Tencent and founding investor PLDT helped digital financial technology provider Voyager Innovations raise the first part of a new round.

Voyager Innovations, the Philippines-based operator of a mobile financial services platform, agreed yesterday to raise $120m in funding from investors including internet group Tencent and telecommunications firm PLDT.

The corporates were joined by investment firm KKR’s Asian Fund III, the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and IFC’s Emerging Asia Fund.

Founded in 2013, Voyager has built a range of digital financial services products for customers in emerging economies, encompassing areas such as digital payment, marketing technology, mobile banking,…

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